Patrick Campbell / Adrian Kear (eds.)

Psychoanalysis and Performance

Herausgeber: Campbell, Patrick; Kear, Adrian

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

In this volume some of the most distinguished thinkers in the field make an exciting new connection based on the dual principle that psychoanalysis can provide a productive framework for understanding the work of performance, and that performance itself can help to investigate the problem of identity.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Routledge
• Seitenzahl: 258
• Erscheinungstermin: 24. Mai 2001
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 20mm
• Gewicht: 574g
• ISBN-13: 9780415212045
• ISBN-10: 0415212049
• Artikelnr.: 21407620

Autorenporträt

Patrick Campbell is Academic Chair of Performing Arts at Middlesex University. Adrian Kear is Senior Lecturer in Drama and Theatre Studies at the University of Surrey Roehampton.

Inhaltsangabe

Preface: The returns of psychoanalysis, and performance Introduction
SECTION A Thinking through theatre 1 Rehearsing the impossible: the insane
root 2 As if: blocking the Cartesian stage 3 Scanning sublimation: the
digital Pôles of performance and psychoanalysis 4 Now and then:
psychotherapy and the rehearsal process SECTION B Parallel performances 5
Violence, ventriloquism and the vocalic body 6 Hello Dolly Well Hello
Dolly: the double and its theatre 7 Writing home: post-modern melancholia
and the uncanny space of living-room theatre 8 The writer's block:
performance, play and the responsibilities of analysis 9 The placebo of
performance: psychoanalysis in its place SECTION C History, memory, trauma
10 Freud, Futurism, and Polly Dick 11 (Laughter) 12 Speak whiteness:
staging 'race', performing responsibility 13 The Upsilon Project: a
post-tragic testimonial 14 Staging social memory: Yuyachkani